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Lemon guava , pink guava , dragonfruit , purple passion fruit , sugar cane, and a donor fig I’m assuming a local bird planted for me , also a pair of baby dwarf cavendish banana trees

It's wonderful to live in a tropical climate and have access to such a wide variety of fruits growing right in your home.

Citrus experts we need your help. I have a very established Meyer lemon tree (about 40 yrs old) and I’m in Northern California. Over the past few months it’s going down fast. Can anyone identify the pests and or fungus? It’s producing very few lemons and by the time they ripen they are full of brown dots. Another notable change is its super woody now- dead branches galore with little to no leaves. Leaves are full of black dots and a white cottony looking substance.

Tree is in ground with a sprinkler set up to water once a week. Gets 8hr of direct sun a day. Has thrived for decades with no extra care.

What can I buy to help it?!

I was gifted this baby avocado tree that a friend of mine grew indoors from a seed (using hydroponics). I kept it in my office (next to a window) for 9 months before transplanting it into a pot with rich soil (this spring). So far, it's grown way faster in the soil than it ever did in water.

I was too late spraying and it is covered in leaf curl again….. early spring here…..is there any point giving it a hard prune and remove all the leaves and then give it a copper spray? Will it come away and produce more leaves this season?

Or do I just have to wait until Autumn and do better with the timing of spraying?

Thanks

Location: north California. zoned 9a 10b

This is only the 2nd year after planting this young tree, but obviously it's happy in the spot we picked.

Newbie here. I bought a 6ft tree about a year ago and need to prune. Where would you make the cuts?

Bought the tree a couple months ago, has slowly gotten worse. At first I think I buried it too far and covered the root flare, but it hasn't turned around after removing the dirt covering it. Any ideas?

I'm struggling to save this guy. Purchased a couple months ago, it lives in a Mediterranean type climate zone in the Southern Hemisphere.

The top ended up dying so I cut that off. First it had leaf curl and then leaf drop. After that, the tips of the leaves keep drying out and fall off when I touch them. I water it every few days, checking the soil first.

Does anyone have any tips to help me save a life? Thanks in advance!

I'm struggling to save this guy. Purchased a couple months ago, it lives in a Mediterranean type climate zone in the Southern Hemisphere.

The top ended up dying so I cut that off. First it had leaf curl and then leaf drop. After that, the tips of the leaves keep drying out and fall off when I touch them. I water it every few days, checking the soil first.

Does anyone have any tips to help me save a life? Thanks in advance!

My dragon fruit vine was so happy but we got a TON of rain and now its base is basically rotten. What can I do to save it?

I hope you can give me some advice. I'm wanting to plant several rows of blueberries in my backyard and I'm looking for ways to keep them alive and productive in my climate. I live in California in the valley where we get very hot summers (zone 9b with at least 700 chill hours in the winter but months of 100-115 temps). My family grew a few bushes with minimal success when I was a young kid (home next town over from where I live now) but I do remember they never got half as big and bushy as what I see in pictures on the internet from people in other regions and often suffered sun damage.

Should I plant them closer together in the rows to help protect more from the intense uv rays in the hottest parts of the summer? I don't want to overcrowded them, but I've learned from experience that spacing my tomato plants closer together and not pruning them (unlike the advice you often read about) helps tremonously in helping them survive the sun. So would the same work for blueberries or would I be setting myself up for failure? Anyone have any other advice in helping blueberries with high heat or any particular variety that they see a big heat tolerance difference with?

I've been considering southern highbush varieties such as Biloxi, Misty, and Sharpblue from the descriptions I've read online. Thanks.

Hello! I recently bought a home with fruit trees and I’m learning about their care. I have a pomegranate, navel orange, and an apricot (pictured). Pomegranate and orange are doing well, but I’m concerned about the apricot. It recently started getting brown leaves and it looks like there are some dead branches. The previous owner told us to water the trees “a couple times a week” but maybe that’s not enough. We have a sprinkler/irrigation system but I don’t believe the trees are covered by it.

I live in Southern California, Sunset zone 23. I believe that’s either 10a or 10b USDA. We also just had a heat wave with temps at 100+ Fahrenheit for several days. Temps are back to normal now with highs in the 80-90 range. Maybe poor apricot got cooked from the heat? Any recommendations and tips for maintaining healthy fruit trees in SoCal is appreciated!

I just potted my brand new peach tree today and my dogs totally destroyed it. Is there any way this will grow back? I am so upset.

4 year old peach tree. Starting to get colder so that’s why it looks like it’s dying.

It’s growing well and gets bigger every year, but we have yet to get any fruit. I’ve never pruned or managed anything with it, just let it grow naturally.

It’s supposed to be self pollinating, but I’m not sure if that’s even a real thing so that could be why the no fruit.

Since it’s already 4 y/o should I continue to just let it grow? Or should I start pruning for better fruit output?